Expat, do you need an Obamacare plan?

Whether the individual mandate to purchase health insurance and the penalties for not purchasing it will depend on whether the expatriate is either:

1) Eligible for the IRS’s foreign earned income exclusion, which means the expatriate must have a tax home (the general area of your main place of business or employment where you happen to be permanently or indefinitely engaged) in a foreign country, as well as be either a legitimate resident in that country, or